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facia Worth Knowing. Q. Is Alabastine expensive? A. No, it is the cheapest article for the purpose on the market. Q. How is that? Cannot I purchase kalso mines at a few cents per pound? A. Yes, kalsomines can he purchased at almost any price. Q. Why then is Alabastine less expensive? A. In the iirst place a package of Alu!>astino. costinu a few cents more, will cover double the surface that a package of kalsominc will. V. What other advantage has Alabastine that kalsomines do not possess? A. Aluhastine is entirely different from ali kalsomines. It is manufactured from a base in itself a cement, and when applied to a wall set* hard. O. llow do kalsomines differ from tills? A. Kalsomines are made from whiting, clays, chalks or somo inert powder for a base and are entirely doiieudeiit on animal glue to hold tliero pn the wall. Q. What are the results? A. In ono case the Alalmst ine being a cement hardens with age, and the kal aminos as soon as the glue, which constitutes its binding nnslltv.rtoi'iivc pnl? ntnl i,?j ?ir ?? i? nothing to bold it on tbo wall. Q. Does Alabastino require washing and scraping off before recoating'/ A. No. Alahastinu when oure applied to a clean surface can bo rocoated for any length of time without having to wash or scrape the wall*. 0. Does this feature count for much? A. Ask any practical housekeeper, who has been driven from hoine to have walls washed and scraped, whether It will Is- desirable to have all of this overcome, and walls improp d instead < ! -p -tlnl by coating them. 1,?. How ran I get Alnlmsl iueV A. From your local paint dealer. If he does not keep it in stock, and tries to sell you s<micthing else, tell him you are determined to try Alabastine. and if he will not keep it you will get it elsewhere. The fellow juit out of the look-up h the follow who thoroughly eujoys the 'freedom of the city."?Columbus Post, It 3s considered by many people cttremelj forward for a young mn to aeud a jprl-a waluntine in leap year. ^ y|T|U<0 '' sol - r Mayor Tillbrook of MeKeesport, l'a., Cured of Scrofula in the Neck vy nana h ,*>ii rxtt )xi ri11a All parents whose children suffer from Scrofula, Salt Rheum, or other diseases caused by impure blood, should read tho following from Mrs. J. \V. Tillbrook, wife of theMn vor of McKeesport, Penn.: "C. 1. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mass.: "My Utile boy Willie, now six years old, two years ago had a Bunch Under One Far which the doctor said scrofula. As it continued to grow he finally lanced t and It discharged for Romo time. We I hen liegan giving him Ilood's Sarsnpnrllla and ho Improved very rapidly until It healed up. I,ast winter It broke out again and was followed by Erysipelas We again gave him Hood's Sarsaparllla with most excellent result* and he lias had no further trouble. Ills cure s due to the use of Hood's Sarsaparllla. He has never beeu very robn t, but now seems health* and dully growing stronger. The doctor seemed quite please I at his appearance and sold he feared at ouc time that we should lose Is ins. I have also taken Hood's ^arsaoar lla myself and am satisfied that I have beeu helped by It." Mrs. J. W. Tll.i.MtooK, fifth a\o., McKeesportllood'i l'illit arc | urely vigeiable, perfect]-' barmless, ?lo not gr pe. "'MOTHERS'] !; FRIEND" ToYr"s...ii Mak^ C^I'd f&fttasy. | : Shortens Labor, j ' i Lessens Pain, 2 ; EmVyoiscd by the Leading Physicians. J J Book to "Mothers"mailed 1<'RKB. i 5 BRACFIELD REGULATOR CO. | 2 ATLANTA, GA. 5 SOI.D BY ALL DKUQOI8TS. J "German Syrup" William McKeekan, Druggist at Blooiningdale, Mich. " I have had the Asthma badly ever since I came out of the army and though I have ueen in me drug business lor litteen years, and have tried neatly everything on the market, nothing has given tne the slightest relief until a few months .ago, when I ttsed Bosi-ileft'ji German Kyruft. I ?m now glad to acknowledge the great good it has done tne. I am greatly relieved (hiring the day and at nightgoto sleep without the least trouble." (D WELL DRILLING Machinery for W?-|Ih of Any depth, from 20 to 3.000 feet, for Water. (?11 ?>r Oan. Our Mount* <1 Sh am Drilling ami PortAble H??r?e I'ovror M.u'hlnrsft't t?> w.n k ?n20mmuteH. Guaranteed to '1 rtll f inter mil with !?-& than any other Specially pdapted to ctrII li?i? Well* In faith <?r roek ?0 t?? I i**) fo? t Kmrnerftand others are making #2T? to i* to |>t r ?lny w ith our machinery and feola Splendid ItlTOt Mniiufiicfiirers in tin" Inmlpen spun I rent* In Stamp* f?.rillimti.it" d ( utaloKUe II. Antn.K.sp, Fierce Well Kiravalor Co., IVrw York. If you have no appetite, Intlltcesfioii, Flatulence, Hlek-lfeadaolie, "all ruiiQ ilown" or losing flesh, tako ;Tutt'sTiny Pills? ^PTIiry tone up the weak stomach mill v5J 'uillil up the nagglno; energies. %.1e. 9 KING COTTON Bay tr Mil your Cotton onJOj)IE8 jKoaS'To" Cotton 8cale. V" II NOT CHEAPEST BUT BEST. jK I I For terms address IB IB 11J0WE9 or BINOIIAMTOH, w B1NGHAMT0N. N. Y. j 1) O |l I, T It V Illustrated flnixl RookS cts. I INCUBATION Circular fur ilamp. ttrmiet lull. I VON I I I,IN INt' FO , DKLAWXltKCII Y, Dm. PATENT8KSK"!?: j 40 pair book Ire# 1 A AP A MONTH for 8 Bright Young Men or 5KE%n% IjuIIcs In eacli county Address P. \V. VVkf /.lEdliEKACO., Phlla., Pa. Panraioivsi - i>?r nil soi.nik.iiit M disabled (2 lee for Increase. X years eg* perienee. Write for lawi. a w. mi{'hiihii ( Oofs, Waa|tiNeTOM, J). ft. <* riw< in.nati. O. THE l.ADY OF TEARi Through valley and hamlet and city, Wherever humanity dwells. W ith a heart too full of infinite pity, A breast that with sympathy wells, She walks iu her beauty immortal. Each household gro ws sad as she nears, But she crosses at length every portal. The mystical Lady of Tears. If never this vision of sorrow Has shadowed your life in the past, You will meet her, I know, some to niorT' >w? She visits all hearthstones at last. To hove', and cottage, and palace. To servant and king she appears, And offers the gall of her chalice? The unwelcome l<ady of Tears. To the eyes that have smiled but in glad nese, To the souls that have basked in the sun, She seems in her garments of sadness A creature to dread and to shuu. And lips that have drank but of pleasure Grow pallid and tremble with fears, As she portions the gall from her measure, The merciless Lady of Tears. But iu midnight, lone hearts that aro break >ng. With the agonised numbness of grief, Are saved from the torture of breaking, Bv her bitter sweet draught of relief. Ob, then do all graces enfold her; Like a goddess she looks and appears. And the eyes overflow that behold her? The beautiful Lady of Tears. ?Ella Wheeler Wiloox. deliveredfromIivil. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. 3 supper read} %* v%\ \WNaomi?" '< 4**0)) IB "No, it ain't!" ' ? - U David Pole ha 4- M n brought with hii jfl a breath of th , ? Jlco^ outside ai t! 'n*? ro?' 4 'm w^ere !>'8 s'st< If-jrl V \ was iron'ug- Th young people wei I M* alike?tall, well *? ?L . shaped, swarthy complexioncd, with regular features, aa< large, gipsy-black eyes, where the jett; lights seemed to swim at every breath. A very old woman, cowering over th< stove, had the same strange eyes, al though her hair, under its close-frillor cap, was bleached snow white, and he skin was the color of old parchment. "What yc got?" the crone demanded as voung Pole flung a bunch of birds o the table. "Something for breakfast, granny, said he. "I've beeu hunting in Callt Woods. Not much luck, though. Isaj Naomi, I wish you'd hurry up supper." "What for? It ain't supper time yet and I've got ail the towels to do yet." "Oh, bother the towels I I want t go over to Skene's Corners to night am sec Miss Stuart's new piano." "Humph!" Naomi ironed away witl redoubled zeal. "Miss Stuart's nev piano, indeed I I wish Miss Stuart wa further, and her new piano, too! Bu you're like all the rest, Dave?a new fac turns your head, llessie Holt and he poor little parlor organ ain't, much ac count now." "Eh? What ye talkin' 'bout. Who'i Miss Stuart? Is Hessie Holt's organ oul o' tune ag'in?" crooned out the oh wouiau by the lire. "Granny do*;'t know," said Naomi "I guess she's the only one that don't Miss Stuart, granny? Why, she's th< latest fashion at Skene s Corners. She' the new schooima'am. Ask our Dave i you want to know all about her. As] any of the young fellers! ' "Ask John Classonl" added David angrily. "Naomi's jealous?that' what ails Naomi." Naomi compressed her full red lip and ironed resolutely on. The ok grandmother fell into a sort of doze an< nodded _o.v?'t the stove. David Poll .UrtJ.'f?the lantern down from its nai against the chimney-piece. "If 1 can't get ray supper here," sai< he, "I'll get it over to Classon's. I'll look arter the cattle tirst." "You'll get it here if you wait supper time!" sharply spoke Naomi. "I don't choose to wait." "Then don't." David Pole bit his lip. "An' I'll take care to let John Clas son know what a sweet tempered siste I've got," said he. "John Classou nothing to me," re torted Nnotui. "And never will be, I guess." Naomi uttered a vexed exclamationher over-heated irou had left its triangu I iar impress on a fringed, red-bordere I towel. "Somethin's burniuM" saueakei | granny, starting from her doze. And in a moment David was gone. "He can do as he pleases," though Naomi, vindictively. "Ther's nothin; but cold pork and pickled beets fo supper, anyhow. Perhaps they'll hav something better at Classon's. Mirandy' igood cook." She pot tho ton steeping in a filth earthenware pot; she took the irons ot the stove, put away the clothes horse , ud began, in a spiritless way, to set thi table for the evening meal. The clock had just struck six, an< granny was stirring the homely browi Migur into her tirst cup of tea, when gentle knock sounded on the warpe pine' of the outside door. Naomi ros to answer the summons. A beautiful young woman, with red old hair, lar^e light-blue eyes and omplexion ;is delicate as a roseleaf ood there, wrapped in a scarlet am olack plaid shawl. "Mi s Pole? ' she said, hesitatingly. Naomi inclined her head stiffly. "Vcm," said she, "that is my name." "I am Eda Stuart." Again Naomi bowed frigidly. "Au?l," hesitated the new school teacher, with a smile that might h&T melted the earthen ware Chinaman 01 iho lid of granny s teapot, but whicl produced no sort of effect on Naom Pole, "I've started out to visit a sicl pupil?Louisa Ledyard?and I'm afrai< i've lost rny way. I hadn't any idea i .ould grow dark sr soon, and I mus e back by seven o'clock, for I ex pec omc friends to try a new piano that i ive hnd sent mc from Boston. Vou not her has half promised to come, Mia 'ole. Won't you accompany him?" "Davfd isn't at home, sitd Maomi with a sidewise glance at the roa I dow vhiih her brother had strode some a;o "And I don't care nothin'about piano*.' Miss Stuart colored, and shrank luck She felt as if this hard, handsome bru cite had slapped her in the face, "Perhaps, then," said she, you can toll ruo the .nearest way home. It's quite dark, you see, uud," brushing some white, needle-like particles out of her face, "it's beginning to snow." "Keep right along the path till you o >me to the old stone tavern," said Naomi* indifferently. "Then turn tc the right, and it ain't more'n half a mile, or maybe three-quarters!" The bright-tressed girl still lingered on the doorstep. " "I am not very well acquainted with the roads around here," said she. "II you could send a boy to show me?" 'We don't keep no boy," said Naomi. 'And we'vo no one to send.** Again Miss Stuart recoiled. "Good-eveuing!" she said, gently. "Good-evening!" And Naomi banged the door shut. As she sat eating her supper,and helping granny to fre3h supplies of homemade bread and butter,a sudden thought darted into her mind. In giving Miss Stuart the directions for finding her way back to Skene's Corners, she had forgotten the young stranger's total ignorance of the neigh. : borhood characteristics. It was true that the regular road branched off to the right of the ruined pile which had otice been an old stone tavern; but there were was also a disused thoroughfare which led through a dismal swamp, towerd a long abandoued stone quarry, across a rotten corduroy road, which had nearly sunk iuto one of these frightful, quakiug bogs which sometimes appear iu dense and swampy woods. To one unaccustomed to the local topography, it might be perilously easy to stray off iuto the weed-grosvn aud deserted track, especially when everything r' was whitened with fast falling snow. Naomi sprang up and went to the door. She looked out, with one hand held above her her eyes. 15 "Am I losing my wits?" she thought. !' "Of course I cannot see half a dozen 11 rods down the road; It's dark as pitch, ^ aud suowing into the bargain. Let her 21 go her own gait! I ain't responsible!" " A sudden light blazed in her eyes, as if Satau's self had (lashed a lurid bombshell across hersoul. John Classou, her own "steady company," had been dazzled 1 ?at least so spoke the tongue of popular F rumor?by the glitter of Eda Stuart's sea-blue eyes. She, the late belle of e Skene's Corners,was quite out of fashion now! 1 Eda had danced every danco at Squire r Marbury'8 corn-husking,and Naomi had sat by among the wall-flowers,her heart ? swelling with secret anger. D Though Naomi hated the beautiful M blonde, she rose up again aud reached down the lantern that David had replaced on its hook by the kitchen chinar? uey. "Granny," said she to the dozing old ? woman, "I'm going out a few minutej." "Eh? What?" shrilly questioned ? gruuny. "lie you a-goin' to sec the new fortc-piauuv ? 11 vou bewitched arter the new schoolma'am, too?" Naomi made no reply. She lighto 1 tho v lantern, bundled a shawl around her 3 head, and rushed out into the frozen darkness. e It was suowing hard now; the wind r rustled the pine trees with a mournful sound, and had nearly blown out the faint beacon of Naomi's lantern until she ' sheltered it with her shawl, She gained some distance by climbing nimbly over a stone wall and traversing a stubbly meadow, instead of following the windings of the road, and presently arrived, panting for breath,at the ruined 3 stone tavern, s f She held the lantern high a'iove her t head and looked around. Nobody was visible. She called aloud, "Miss Stuart! Miss Stuart!" No auswer came. B For one second she hesitated; then, changing the lantern from one hand to 8 the other, she staste 1 on a run down the ] disused track until she came to the spot 1 where here and there a partially subb merged log betokened the former traces 1 of the corduroy road. Was that something white that moved ] against the dazzling whiteness of the I storm? Once more Naoini called: "Miss Stuart!^ Miss Stuart!" rvOYl,'itrtYiftFybuV ~"Do'coiae here .and# help me!" a terrified voice answered. "I stepped on a broken log, and I think the ground must bo swampy here; tho log seems to be sinking in. But I've got tight hold of a young birch tree." Naomi sprang to the rescue. Eda had already set her feet upon thfe doomed spot. Iu another moment tho rescuer would have been too late! With a strength at which she herself afterward marveled, Naomi seized Eda ^ around the waist and lifted her out of the morass. ^ "Do you know," she gasped, "that you have been standing face to face with death? Do you know that you have wandered out of the road into the Shaking BogsT' Eda's fate, in the glimmer of the lamplight, was very white. "And you have saved me!" she ex8 claimed. "Oh, how can I over find words to thank you?" ' "Never mind that now," said Naomi, in the old, brusque way. "Let us make ' haste back to Skene's Corners. It's 8 snowing faster every moment, and your . lect are wet in that awful morass. Look. Here's where 7011 missed the right road. 8 Of course you couldn't be expected to I know that this old track was closed up e long ago, and I didn't remember to tell you. There arc the lights of Skene's Comers now. Canyon see tbein glistena ing through the snow flurries?" "But you are coming with me?" j "No. I must hurry hack to granny. nm ?mih! iiuMiuiiL-u ami uusueu ueopij ? "you will kiss me just once to?show ?that?wc are frien Is?" By way of answer, Edi flung both her arnu aroand Naomi Pole's nec'.c anl ! showered a score of fragrant kiwej on her cheeks, lips an I brow. 8 " Friends,'' she crie'.l, passionately, a "forever 1" a ? *#** i "It's high time you were here, Naomi," k petulantly uttered old Granny Pole, J "when here has John Classon boon at (l settin' half an hour before* the fire, t waitin' for you to come h ick I" John Clasaon colored a little as ho held r out his broad, suubrowncd hand to Naomi. "You see," said ho, "Dave cainc over to our house to see iny Cousin Hessie, n and?and I thougiit it would bo a good chance to tell you what I've wanted tc ' tell you so long. Can't you guess what it is, Naomi?" It was late when Dave caine home. Grandma Pole had long been abod and MUAKitat Naomi sat before the dying Naomi I you upt" was Dare's oflP-WoWgreeting. "I'Te got news fot you. Pfc engaged inyselt to Hessie Holt, alBtf the crops turn out good next yw^rr m>wrife shall hare as good s piWto as Miss jSfch Stuart t" Naomi held ou^br band; the limpid black deeps sparkleeyes. "I'm awful glad, said she. "I'm sorry I was so cn^Hwith you tonight; bht my heart sore. I thought Mifts Stuart h^^^harmed John "Xnd'hadi'tshe?" "Ho has never thought Bwico of her, Dare," spoke op tho exultmnt girl. "H? cared for rae, and me only J ana to-nigbl he asked me to be his wife!" The brother and sister talked late ant lovingly together, while the clock ticket behind its screen of asparagus and th> snow built up fhathery oarricales againv the outside of the window panes; huj when Nioaou laid her head on tl^e pillow her last thought was that of gratitud* that she had listened to the trunipe, call of conscience and hastened to Ednt Stuart's rescue. "For after all," pondered Naomi "slio was no rival of "mine, and?and! think it's likely 1 shall be married belore she is." And as she repeated her prayers, one phra*e lingered sweetly in her drifting dreams: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us froin evill"?Saturdav Nieht. ? ? V?: " ?u Brooklyn Bridge. No douU many people have wondered what bcooroes of the milliona of ticket* sold and oollected annually by the New York and^ Brooklyn Bridge Company. Oue who has given somo thought to the suoject tells what might be done with them, and incidentally gives other hgujjea showing the magnitude of the traffic on the Bridge. Here they are just as he gave them: "Over forty-one million of people crossed the bridge in 1891 on the bridge cars Had promenade. Could all the hands which liavo purchased tickets be joined together at the end of the year, a circle could be formed 14,112 miles in diameter, or 42,336 miles in circumference; a distance equal to one and one-half times aroufd the, earth. If the grand chain wenu,suggested, and the fastest trains ancfthips employed, it would be nearly three months before one could make the bow and return to his place beside his partn^! 'A soltffj^pare of 20,634 columns of 2000 men each, covering over three square miles, or 2000 acres, could be I lormea ot tne ticket purchasers. "It would take 687,606 passenger coaches, allowing sixty persons to the coacb, or 45,863 trains of fifteen coaches each to carry this crowd away. If a hundred a minute could be counted witliout stopping during tho twentyfour hours, it would require over eight months to count them. If hollow squares of 300 feet square can be conceived to be placed one upon the other, the enormous height of nine miles would would be reached. By forming a triangular pyramid with a base of 20,460 square inches, a pyramid could be had much higher than that of "Cheops" in Egypt. If stretched out in a line, so that the head of one person would touch the feet of another, they tvould reach a distance of 39,179 miles. "The carriages, wagons, etc., that cross in one year would, if strung out, reach 25,732 miles, or more than once around the earth. "It would take a train of 42,458 box cars, with 2123 engines, to haul the people away, and would, if coupled together, cover 322 miles, or reach from New York to Richmond. "The tickets, if joined together continuously, would reach from New York to St. Paul, a distance of over thirteen hundred miles, and would weigh very nearly a ton. There would be enough tickets to cover the bridge promenade to the depth of an eighth of an inch. If enroot A?if ? ?-?? -C-vou uu? liju Y nuulU GQTCI U f Ot L I 1 square feet, or thirteen acres of ground. There would be enough tickets to covor the walls, ceiling and flocr of the Fifth Avejau,e Hotel corridor fifty-seven* times. More tBau a thousand ordinary-sized rooms could be papered, and if piled up under pressure, one on top of the other, they would reach 34,390 feet, or over six miles high. "It would require sixty cars, five feet high, ten feet broad and forty feet long, to store all tiie tickets used in one year." New York Advertiser. The King Acknowledged His Mistake. The good nature cf Italy's King is well illustrated by an anecdote from the days of the last royal hunts at Monza. niu^ uuuiucii is aui usioiutu w> hid nip sport with the guu in pretty much the same clothes as other persons and without attendants, thereby distinguishing him from his imperial German ally, who has insignia of his high office all over his huntiog costume and is accompanied usually on the chase by noblemen and flunkeys. -* Shortly before the end of last season the King's bourn! started a hare about two miles from Monza, and the King tired. At the same instant another shot was heard, and an Italian peasant, with uu old-fashumed gun and a mongrel dog, hurried up from the opposite direction. The peasant mistook the simple yet elegantly-clad sportsman who disputed his possession of the bare for a lfomau dude, and caught up the royal arm stretched toward the dead game. There was a hot dfccuasioD, which ended in the triumph of the King's superior logic and his taking off the hare. At the royal castle the King gave the hare to tho servants that they might prepare it for his supper, and stood by as t lion Hrooonr) if //>? ??swwv? iv j </? vutl |wu. ttuqu mo entrails were removed the bullet that earned the animal's death was found. It was of the old style of a gun, of the pattern of fifty years ago. The King looked at it aud at once sent out a messenger to summon to the castle the peasant who had disputed the possession of the hare. When tUo old man was led into the King's presence the latter at retched to hi in botn^Mnds and said: My dear man I have just discovered my mistake. The hare belongs to yon. As it is already roasting, however, I can do no more tbafc to ask you to help me eat it." The peasant sat at the King's right hand at dinner that evening, and, although high society spoiled bis appetite, lie jingled his wineglass against that of histbvefeign ard rode home considerably exhileratAl in the royal carriage.?Chicago Tribune. I Some Speed Makers. Some curious facts are brought int prominence by a correspondent of tioi Cycling, who has been at the pains to ^ draw up a comparative table of the rates mu of speed in different modes of loco- JJJ motion. The express train, of course, ma stands pre-eminent. Man has as yet discovered no way of getting about can faster on the earth's surface. It will be a surpise, however, to many to learn eas that the safety bicycle, of which so much Is heard nowadays, only occupies in this list the seventh place. s The fastest time in which a train hns t been known to travel a miio was forty- Un nine seconds and a fraction; to accom- cou plish the same distance the fastest bicyclist, who has hitherto ridden, took rt* two and three-quarter minutes, or just tai about three times as loug. An ice yacht has traveled a mile in ouo minute and ten seconds, a running horse in one minute >j and thirty-five and a half seconds, a tor- cut pedo boat iu one minuto and fifty seconds, a steam yacht iu two minutes i and twelve seconds and a fraction, aud a skater on ice, with a favorable wind dri behind hi<n, in two minutes aud twelve ] seconds and rather a large fraction. A eft little way after the safety bicycle comes *hi the ocean liuer; the oarsman is much c slower, taking live minutes aud forty 1 nei seconds to travel a nnle, and the slowest of all is the swimmer, who requires very little short of an hour to perforin the same journey. 1 : I, dia A Story of Kquiuo Friendship. A story of a remarkable iustance of t?1 equine friendship comes from Portland. j One of a pair of horses belonging to the Mt horse railroad company was sold,- whore- j upon his mate, a blind horse, refused to Nr be comforted and so pined away that the ^ General Mauuger went to the new owner of the other steed and asked for the loan m of the animal for a visit to the stable. d< As soon as this horso was put iu his old ? stall, the blind horse showed signs of great delight and at once began to recover his appetite and his health. The owner of the other horse, seeing the love of the blind one for his friend, bought him, too, and now drives down town with a span.?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Children Burned to Death. Orangeburg, S. C.?Annie Inabinet, aged nine years, daughter of A. II. Inabinet, of the Bull Swamp Section, met with a horrible death last Monday. Her father and mother left her in bed asleep aud alone iu their residence, with a lire burning in the bed room. Upon returning, they found the house in flames, and their little one at the window, hesitating whether to jnmp to the ground or not. In this condition she was overtaken by the flames, and, with the house, was soon entirely consumed. George Hanc, a white child, live years of age, was burnt to death in the Middle St. Mathews section. Ilis pirents left him at home to take charge of a still younger child. Soon after their departure the little fellow went out of the house and began playing with some cm1lr.ro loft in . V... .......1 IIS- 1 . WVIO (VIv iu V11U ^?HI 1113 UlUlUt'B uccame ignited, and there being no help at hand, he soon burned to death. Invostor of tha Cotton Picker Dead . \ MoNTCioMEuy, Ai.a.?The death is announced of James Williamson Wallis, | the iuventor of the mechanical cotton picker. He died nt his homestead in Memphis, Pickens county, on the 14th, aged seventy s x. lie founded the town I of Memphis, and for many years was an extensive cotton planter. Siuce the i war he has devoted himself to inventing a mechanical cotton picker, and a ( few months ago his long struggle in this direction was crowned with success. His invention was practically tested and pronounced by expert judges an unqualified success lie has been associated with George Lispeuard, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in his enterprise. He letves three sons and a daughter. Prince Bismarck 111. 9 A Berlin cablegram says: Prince I Bismarck was attacked to day with asuddea illness. In view of the coudition of affairs here, the news has caused inteuse anxiety. Many mu- V nipinnlitipti nnH ntliot- l?n/1Jou (Kwaik/Kah* A. Germany have begun their prep- I aaatious to celebrate Bismarck's ap- * proaching seveDty-scveuth birthday, on 1 the 1st of April. The illness of the T Prince is said not to be serious, and the ^ latest advice represent it as no more than { an indisposition. Owing to the attack, he has given up his intended visit to 0 Ratzcburg, the capital of his duchy of ^ Lautnburg. ' * <J To Refund tho Cotton Tax. Washington, D. C. - A bill to refund to producers the internal revenue ttx collected on cotton was introduced in the Senate by Mr. George. The bill directs , the Secretary of Treasury to accrtain the J amount of intcyual revenue tax collected on cotton in each of the States, aud to refund the proportionate amounts, to be held in trivrt by the States for payment to the producer. Cluims under tho act may lie tiled within two years after its l| passage. Eloped with Throe Girls at Once. f Lincoln, Nkb?William Winegar ran ' away with Laura Mcehan nud Lillie and Minnie Lobaugh, girls of tifteen and six- | teen. He also stole a neighbor's horse and bought a prairie schooner, and when overtaken to-day was enjoying his new position as a head of u household ten I miles from the nearest town. When ho was brought back the father of the Lobaugh girls tried to shoot him, but was prevented by officers. Seven Babies at k Birth. Quyaquil, Ecuador via Panama.? * Marie Juneau, a French woman _ living on the outskirts of || this city, gave birth yesterday to seven ' children, ail perfect and lie ilthy Mill Gets the Texas Senatorship. ; Austin, Tex.?It. Q. Mills was un.iii- , imoualy chosen United States Bcnntor by . the Legislature. The joint session for mally rati lied his election. The Only Oae Kver Printed. cam you pino tna word? Theee lead Inch display ad van Uoment In tMa paper, this a oak, which bna no two words alt i a except one word. Tho nanio Is true of each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Ilarter Medicine Co. This house place* a ^Crcrecnt" on everything they inakeand i>ubHrh. Look for It. send them the nnme of the word and they will return you book, bbai'Tirot. mthoobaphb orsampcm ritat. A ItisiuiKA farmer has been acquitted of killing a book agent who persisted la forcing bis Look on him. Cooons, HoeasvBss, Work Throat, etc., quickly relieved b Biiown's Hiioncihai. TROOHBR. They ui'pam all o her prepare tions In removing hoarseness, and as a eonjh rentedp are pr?-einitially t/ie best. Ma Ton Matthews estimates that Boston, Mam., will need 918,000,000 for this year's running sap tntes. Ought to be smallc* ?the great, griping, old-fashioned V, pill. Inere's too much unpleasantness for the money. Ougnt to bo ? better, too. They're big enough, and make trouble enough, to do more good; ! ? _.VS That's just what Dr. Picrco's .^gj Pleasant Pellets do, ? more good. Iustead of weakening the system, jg 1 they renovate it; instead of up? setting, they cleanso and regulate It ? mildly, gently, and naturally. \ They're the original Little Liver Pills ? the smallest but most effectives* l purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, and easiest to take. Only one little Pellet for a gentle laxative? OMlkNtCu'lWCaNl local application?, as they cannot reach the aaaed portion of the ear. There la only one r to oore deafueea. and that la by conatltnlal remedies. Deafness la caused by an Inned condition of the maoooa lining of the itachlan Tuba. When tube (eta lnned you have a rumbling aound or lmpert hearing, and whan It la entirely closed, ifneaa la the result, and unlace tTni tpR?w?tlon can bo taken out and thla tuba rered to ita normal condition, hearing will bi (roved forever; nine oaaea outof tan are taed by catarrh, which la nothing but an 1? ned condition of the mucous anrfanea Ve will give One Hundred Dollars for nny * of deafness (caused by catarrh! that we inot cure by taking Hall's OatarrhCum id for circulars, free. ., - _ *,- J. CH*K(T4bOOsTeled^a old by Druggists. 7?>. 'ohty-iioht stage ooaohea carrying the ted States mail were bald up In this lutr.f last year. 'on Impure of tbln Blood, Weakness, MalaNeuralgia. Indigestion, and Biliousness, ;e Brown's Iron Bltiers?It gives strength, ,'itng old persons feel young?and young ions strong; pleasant to take. ['he Massachusetts State Board of Agritore reports the abandoned farms of that ite to be 906. f you suiTcr from sick, nervous, neuralgic nal, billious, or dyspeptic headaches, Brady 'tine will euro you promptly. Fifty cents lg stores. Koiu v-o.vk electric light plants have been abtished in the South during the pad ree months. >ne doso of Boicham's Bills relieves 6lcli adacho in J?J minutes. For sale by all drug ts. 26 cents a bo*. Russia has prohibited the exportation ol ic-at frour Finland. roR Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and Stomach orders, use Brown's Iron .Bitters. The Best nlc. It rebuild* tho system, oleans tbe Blood it strengthens the muscle. A splendid ton tor weak and debilitated persons. r you would be correct In pronounolni mitnbu accent tho last, syllable. "ITS stopped free by Dr. Knun's onr ;hvk Restorer. No fits after first day's use irvolous euros. Treatise and 12 trial bottl o. Dr. Kllno. 031 Arch Bt.. Phlla.. Pa. In tho beet sugar district of Qermany tb cn in summer earn but thirty-five cents >v .-'nil l->oard themselves. fogs ON? ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; It is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys. .Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy^ of its Kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, Its many excellent qualities ooinns end it to all and hays made it the most popular remedy known. Byrup or Figs is for sale in 60s and >1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not aooept any substitute. CALIFORNIA F/0 SYRUP CO 8AH FBANQJ3CO, OAL. tfivttvnu KY *?W TOIL s r. Kennedy's YledicalDiscover Takes hold in this order: towels, iver, Sidneys, inside Skin, )utside Skin, riving everything before It that ought to bo out. fou know whethe fou need it or not. Bolt! by every druggist, end manufactured bj DONALD KENNEDY, eoxbdby, mams. ELY'S CATARRl ireambalmw^jct im worth mm catarrv, $ 5 O O to an v man. jf voman or child y#/a naflerlns from / ?t yb catarrh fcm# tint ? s .IQUID or SNUFF. HAITtft| A particle la applied Into each nostril ami Is agi ible. l'rloo 00 cents at Druugtsts or by mall. fcljiY HKOTHEK8, 54 Warren street. New Yorl l/CVOTnyr L?tdsaton in 5 mtnut IxLlUlUlvL Haves time, work, m 7a t# buy. Kt. on*, durable, lit U A Y draft. Bend for deecriptf i nun to KEYSTONE M'f'G CO LUA Utn Sterling. HI. DO YOU INTEND TO BUILD t house? llWWk I Balusters, Newels. an<1 all kti f Turned ant) Finished wood work from us. We lanufactarcrs and have the largest pUnt In tale. Agents wanted In every Town andOsuat] ke South. I'rloe lists furnished. Try us ;harlottr Hash, Uuer sad Blind Mfc.C tor, tth end A Btreet. CrumurrrnTW/t eld by all deal ' three for a cathartic. Sick Head- * j ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa- \ [ tion, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, _v i and all derangements of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels are promptly . -y ^ relieved and permanently cored. 1 They're the cheapest pills you can buy, for they're guaranteed to give * satisfaction, or your money is re* turned. You pay only for the good you get. It's a plan peculiar to Dr, * tierce's medicines. / HI at n | nrn The best and cheapest plaoa = WAII PAHFKtob,v"> u-s- i?o?aHULL rmUlp|MWIItfor ?Oe. postsma. Thos. J. Myers, iaiO Market 8t.. VhlU.. H IBBEBfliHgapi and peuple H wtM base weak Iobii or Astb' ma. should ass Plso's Car* for Consumption. It has nrst Ifceaimda. It has not Injured one. It Is not bad to take. H It Is tba best eoagh a/rup. V* 'M JHMSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSM '3... i lllb ' aiEFS | blool. or"8^S?is by fc'it'oS^fMTer or?ntisR5 [ , .to perform tholr proper function? rerunsrlrea to , , o?er<atlngare benefited bj taking a T> It I'TF. after , eachmsal 1'rloe.br mail. 1 rroMlt: 1 bottlelte. Ad ! drau THE niPANB CHKMICALOO. JOBpnicwSt.Jf.Y.2 Agent* Wanted! EIU1ITY per eeat prolt. X wutn"nuu&, Untnuli, tbn hands, Injur* the Iron, and bum off. I The Rising Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Odor. V Jess. Durable, and the consumer psya (or no tta I or glees per keg* with every purchase. I i *? SOLD MDDAL, PARIS, 167A \ ^ iw. B AKER Si CO.W \ Breakfast Cocoa _ from wblehthe egceeeof ?0 LAi has been removed. Is otsolulelt/ pure end (( Is eotuble. i No Chemicals a ere need In lie preparation. It Q ha* mors than three timri the H linngth of Cocoa mired with I Starch, Arrowroot or^ Sugar, F| and la therefor* far more eco> II nomlcel, coittng lets than one ISeentacup. It la delicious, nonr* V lehing, strengthening, basil* U DieasTiD, and admirably adapted tor Invalid* I M well as for person* In health. Sold by flrocere everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. IEVERY FAMILY,! ^ School, Library, and Office . 'vij 8-H-O-U-L-D j Have a Dictionary. I Care should be taken to GET THE BEST. THE INTERNATIONAL, T New from Cover to Cover. * Successor of ilic "I'nabmdged," .. THt ONI TO r (0 year* spent revising. / h \ 100 editors employed. / A.) 'I Jff \ r- . I 1| .'II I. .1 f ??BS?? * M I : soid by / WEBSTER'S \H ^ ? All liookeetlerr. I _ B j send to \ international i S 0-4S^r.^ACo\WCTIONARy J E Springfield,Maae.r.l.A^V^ H B for free aperliuen pegea. B I 3 WfLIVER ~ Bi PILLS DO HOT GRIPS HOB RICKS*. alBB Nn ?r. for SICK HKADACIIB. Impaired dlgeetloa.oMagtf- r-? petlon,torpid gluncin. Tbeyarotaga Xa B Thai orgam, remove niu*t%jdfr- } B elnera. Marie el effect on KM- \ f *> W n?rs end Dlrxldsr. Conquer - billons nerroai dig i o r egartSimrfffiteiiss " xs jftesfjapiisiri'agirkttaaga Kb sseket. like lead pencil. Hiisliioan innn'e great js fc^i?m^v^lrie,,V"c;;^.?old#^rS ** " till?ip. You get?? page books ffkiewgrtg Me NMTU MEDICINE CO., St. Lovlt. Mb S N U. 18 i - ^ . 3 f: * ; ;' X /.Xvt^K .'. - 4 . r*. A?Mpt bMH"' -< '-" % J 1? , "* . * * " '* ^ * i^r * V^SsBsl